The larger moons of Pluto and Earth likely formed through a collisional process with Charon and our moon, respectively, ...

Billions of years ago, in the icy outskirts of the solar system, a dramatic collision forged the unusual pairing of Pluto and ...

One of the best ways to assemble the puzzle pieces of Earth’s past is hiding deep beneath its white polar sheets: ice ...

New study reveals Pluto and Charon’s origin: a unique "kiss and capture" collision redefines how binary systems form.

For decades, astronomers have tried to determine how Pluto acquired its unusually large moon Charon, which is about half the ...

Billions of years ago, two icy worlds—Pluto and Chron—collided in the farthest reaches of our solar system. But rather than ...

Since New Horizons' close encounter with Pluto 10 years ago, experts have come to think of the dwarf planet as much more ...

The adaptable technological solution has the potential to revolutionize engineering designs. A breakthrough in artificial ...

“Because Pluto is rotating rapidly prior to the collision, and because Charon lies mostly outside of their corotation zone, ...

Researchers accounted for the previously overlooked structures of the dwarf planet and moon in computer simulations of a ...